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For those of you who missed my original article on Power Rangers: Origins and yesterday’s first half of this article, I just put the links in, but here’s the short version. Back in 2024 information started getting released about a joint project between Saban Brands, ZAG Entertainment, and Onyx Films for an animated reimagine of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. Ultimately it was passed on in favor of a more gritty live-action reimagine that I have no interest in. There wasn’t a ton of info back then but a couple of nights ago I received a tweet from Spanish-speaking fan site Ranger Esp (I’m assuming that’s short for “espanol”, of which I read very little and needed Google Translate) for an article they did on new information collected by Reddit, a site I don’t go to because free speech is debatable over there.

In part one I looked at the new bios for the reimagined Rangers, and there were changes that I’m not sure I would have been onboard with but others that were okay. However, Ranger Esp also has the plot synopsis broken down into acts, so I wanted to go over the movie that might of been itself to see if that makes up for how disinterested I was in the new takes on characters. I don’t know why the original series that started a franchise has to have so many changes in new versions. This movie, the live-action movie, and Boom Studios all seem to want to reimagine the wheel, and it just feels so unnecessary to me. I don’t need a grimdark “adult” take on Power Rangers. You can do the sentai sub-genre in general that way and depending on how it’s handled I might at least be curious. Power Rangers is a kids franchise that just happens to be good enough for adults who aren’t obsessed with violence, nudity, and swearing can also enjoy because the characters and writing make for a fun experience, especially as the franchise and even the “Zordon Era” went on. Anything darker than Power Rangers In Space or Power Rangers RPM just doesn’t work for me. And RPM is the world where a gifted child was kidnapped and forced to make Skynet, and it almost succeeded in wiping out humanity.

With the intro out of the way, it’s time to dive into the movie summary itself. At the very least it looks like it wanted to be fun kids fare, but was this a reimagine we missed out on or were better off without? Note that all text and images from here out, minus my commentary or something I already have in my media library, come from the Ranger Esp article and Google Chrome’s translation. At some point I realize I was just copying the entire part, but there’s also going to be a bunch of production art that I’m not using for the text wall breaks and samples, plus it’s all there without my commentary if you want to form your own thoughts first. Or stay here if you don’t read Spanish and hate translation programs.

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